Introducing HomeSafe360
Amalgamate has entered a partnership with Genetix Risk Management Limited to create Worklife365 LLP, a new technology-led business.
Worklife365 has been created to develop technology-led solutions for employee safety, security, and wellbeing using the wealth of experience from both of our companies.
It is within this business that we announce the launch our first application: Homesafe360.
What is HomeSafe360?
Homesafe360 is an application designed to provide organisations with an ergonomic and wellbeing risk assessment, training, and support tool for employees who are primarily working from home. This application is customisable for companies and is supported by a web-based management portal.
Our vision is to develop a single source application that supports and improves employee safety, security, and wellbeing (both physical and mental) experience throughout their working lifecycle.
Built around a self-assessment workflow, HomeSafe 360 will ensure employers ensure 100% workplace compliance by asking homeworkers questions on their home environment and providing them with training and interventions to help them resolve their issues.
What are some HomeSafe360’s key features?
- Customisable ergonomic (DSE) and wellbeing question sets based on client requirements
- Qualitative risk assessments that provide a high, medium, or low risk rating
- Built-in training and guidance for workstation set up, safety, security, and wellbeing
- Multiple office locations assessment set up designed for those working from home, the office, and the location of clients
- Built-in check-in feature to allow check-ins from home, the office, on the road, or a client’s office
- A stretch timer designed to send a push notification encouraging the user to take a break from their desk and stretch
- A downloadable PDF copy of the report available for the user following assessment
Hybrid working
Hybrid working has always existed, however, since the COVID-19 pandemic, attitudes towards hybrid working have changed and this approach to work has become more accessible. This flexible style of working involves workers dividing their time between the workplace and working remotely.
Updated Home/Hybrid Working Stats
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/homeworkingintheukregionalpatterns/2019to2022:
- Between October to December 2019 and January to march 2022, homeworking in the UK more than doubled from 4.7 million to 9.9 million people
- In February 2022 more than 8 in 10 workers who had to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic said they planned to continue hybrid working despite the end of UK government guidance to work from home
- 42% of individuals who planned to continue hybrid working were planning to work “most working hours from home, and sometimes from their usual place of work”
- In February 2022, 84% of workers who had to work from home because of the pandemic said they planned to carry out a mix of working at home and in their place of work in the future
- More than three-quarters (78%) of those who worked from home in some capacity said that being able to work from home gave them an improved work life balance in February 2022
- Almost half of those surveyed reported improved well-being (47%)
- More than half (54%) of businesses in the information and communication industry said they were using, or intended to use, increased homeworking as part of a permanent business model in early April 2022
- 91% of respondents reported having a positive experience with remote work
- 98% of respondents would like to work remotely, at least some of the time, for the rest of their careers
- 71% of respondents worked fully remotely (i.e. from home)
- 71% of companies are permanently allowing some amount of remote work